Administration of the MapR-DB is done primarily via the commmand line (maprcli) or with the MapR Control System (MCS).
Regardless of whether the MapR-DB table is used for binary files or JSON documents, the same types of commands are used
with slightly different parameter options. MapR-DB administration is associated with tables, columns and column families,
and table regions.

Data Protection

You can use MapR to protect your data from hardware failures, accidental overwrites, and
natural disasters. MapR organizes data into volumes so that you can apply different data
protection strategies to different types of data.

The following scenarios describe a few common problems and how easily and effectively MapR
protects your data from loss: